We usually go out to a little local breakfast place on Sundays only today, we went straight from there to the Toronto Skydome. Luvofmylife has wanted to go to a Blue Jays game for quite a while now. We usually go two or three times a year, except that this is Canada Day weekend and the Blue Jays play the Expos in interleague play this weekend. This year’s especially important because it may be the last we see of the Montreal Expos. They’re finally going to fall prey to the Yankee buck and leave Canada.

So it was an all-Canadian ball game. Actually, there isn’t a single Canadian on either team but the illusion keeps us happy.

Personally, I would much rather have watched the game from the comfort of my couch and let gravity lull me into the horizontal position. Instead, we spent a hundred bucks to sit a few rows up from behind home plate. The roof was open and it was a hot sunny day. It was like the inside of a solar cooker in there. Fuck it was hot.

But, Luvofmylife gets what she wants. I’m serious. She’s not a demanding person so if she says she wants to sweat at the bottom of a giant bowl watching grown men in their P.J.’s scratching their nuts for three hours, then so be it. Actually, the Jays won and, heat aside, it was a lot of fun.

We’ve been to quite a few games over the years but today, I realized that what I was watching had nothing to do with sport. It’s purely entertainment. Duh, you say! There’s the big giant screen, the shapely little cheerleaders, the mascots, the bad food, the bad beer, the military paratroopers with the Canadian flag parachutes landing on the big yellow X in mid-field, the fireworks when Carlos hits the home run and…oh yeah…there’s a baseball game.

So our guys won. Then we went down to Harbourfront. There was a weekend craft market at Harbourfront Centre so we took that in. There’s a great outdoor stage overlooking the lake just around the corner from the market and there were some really good entertainers on stage. It was a Women in Music mini-festival, I guess.

This is what I absolutely love about living in the city. There’s just all this stuff going on. Actually, while we were watching the ball game, one of the biggest Gay Pride parades in the world was happening downtown. I would have liked to have seen that. I’ve never attended one of those. I hear it’s wild.

After Harbourfront, we went to Alice Fazooli’s and had a magnificent crab dinner. I don’t think I’ve ever been served as well as we were in that place. Our waiter knew exactly how to make us happy. Anything we wanted was possible.

So tomorrow’s Canada Day. We have the day off and we’ll probably spend it gardening and we may even jump in the pool tomorrow. When it’s hot and muggy like it is now, I completely understand why people like having a pool. It may even be worth all the work and expense.

To those I love…and you know who you are…’night.

Arc